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Conference call The Atlantic Coast Conference has the most tournament championships, based on teams’ current affiliations, with 12. Duke has won the title all five times it has made the trip, and North Carolina won for the fourth time last year, one better than Syracuse’s total. The ...

Maui Invitational on-island ticket sale next week

Single-game general admission and all-day reserved ticket sales for the Maui Jim Maui Invitational are scheduled for Sept. 29-30 at multiple Valley Isle locations, tournament officials have announced. Until tickets are sold out, they can be purchased at Hi-Tech Surf Sports stores in Kahului and Paia and The Snorkel Store locations in Kihei and Kaanapali, from 9 a.m. until the closing time of each business on Sept. 29, and from 9 a.m. to noon on Sept. 30. The tournament is scheduled for Nov. 20-22 at the Lahaina Civic Center. Tickets for the championship game on Nov. 22, and for either ...

Bracket for 2017 Maui Invitational released

Wichita State, which returns the top eight scorers from a team that went 31-5 last season, will face California in the opening round of this year's Maui Jim Maui Invitational, tournament officials revealed Tuesday in announcing the bracket for the 34th edition of the event. The three-day tournament at the Lahaina Civic Center will begin Nov. 20, with Marquette playing Virginia Commonwealth in the opener. Chaminade, in the final year before it begins being absent from the tournament in alternate seasons, will meet Notre Dame in the opening round, and a game between Michigan and LSU will ...

Maui still scores points

LAHAINA — The Maui Jim Maui Invitational is 33 years old, in its prime and poised to stay there. The event had a modest beginning as a four-team competition at War Memorial Gym in Wailuku, but is now college basketball’s pre-eminent early-season tournament. This year’s field had ...

Maui Jim Maui Invitational

Monday's Results Quarterfinals Wisconsin 74, Tennessee 62 Quarterfinals Georgetown 65, Oregon 61 Quarterfinals Oklahoma St. 98, UConn 90 Quarterfinals North Carolina 104, Chaminade 61 Tuesday's Results Consolation Oregon 69, Tennessee 65, OT Consolation UConn 93, ...

Fourth Carolina

LAHAINA — So, North Carolina can play. The Tar Heels came to the Valley Isle off a sluggish win at Hawaii, but The Associated Press’ fourth-ranked team left no doubt who was the class of this year’s Maui Jim Maui Invitational field with a 71-56 win over No. 16 Wisconsin in the ...